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▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Artist.......: The Handsome Family ░▓ ▌
▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Album.Title..: Singing Bones ░▓░▐▓
▓▓▄▀█▓▓▓▀ Label........: n/a ░▓░ █▓▌
▐█▓▓ ▀▓ Genre........: Indie ░▓▓▓ ▐█▓▓
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░▓▓░ ▐█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ rip.date....: Oct-06-2003 ░▓▓ ▐███████▓▓▌ ░
░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ str.date....: 000-00-0000 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
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▀▓█████████████▓▓▓▀ quality.....: 192 kbps ░▓░ █▀ ░░▓▓▓ ▀▓
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▀▓█████▓▓▓ ░░▓ playtime....: 38:37 min ░▓▓░▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓░
░ ▐███████▓▓▌░▓▓▓░ Catnr.......: n/a ░▓▓▓▓▓ ▓░▓▓░░ ░
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▓████▓▌ 01. the forgotten lake 03:47 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. gail with the golden hair 03:16 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. 24-hour store 04:52 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. the bottomless hole 03:16 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. far from any road 02:48 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. if the world should end in fire 01:09 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. a shadow underneath 03:44 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. dry bones 03:16 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. fallen peaches 02:59 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. whitehaven 02:46 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. sleepy 03:08 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 12. the song of a hundred toads 02:28 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 13. if the world should end in ice 01:08 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The new record by The Handsome Family (release date ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Oct. 2003) is called, "Singing Bones." There are ▓▌
▓████▓▌ songs about haunted Wal-Marts, lovers who chase the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ fire in streetlights, the madness of very deep ▓▌
▓████▓▌ holes, a lake that can only be visited in dreams, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and the shadows that whisper inside a modern, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ office building. It's their 6th full-length CD of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ new songs. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ "Singing Bones" is designed to rip holes in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ veil between this world and the next. It should ▓▌
▓████▓▌ surely drive most listeners into a severely altered ▓▌
▓████▓▌ state in which even chicken bones at the bottom of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ a garbage pail across the street will begin to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sing. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The Handsome Family is Brett and Rennie Sparks who ▓▌
▓████▓▌ live on a quiet street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Every afternoon at 4 p.m. the ice cream man rolls ▓▌
▓████▓▌ slowly by in a white, dented van that plays a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ mournful version of "Greensleeves." ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Here--sequestered in their secret, garage studio ▓▌
▓████▓▌ soundproofed by a wall of poisonous, prickly ▓▌
▓████▓▌ pear--the Handsome Family recorded, "Singing ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Bones." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The Sparks' relied on their usual array of pawnshop ▓▌
▓████▓▌ instruments and mail-order software. Brett learned ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to play the pedal steel and the musical saw for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ this record and was also able to lure several local ▓▌
▓████▓▌ musicians into the studio using a beer can on a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ string. Once caged and starved, it was easy ▓▌
▓████▓▌ convince a few of them to embellish the new ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Handsome Family songs with trumpet, mandolin, bowed ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bass, and violin. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ In their live performances, the Handsome Family ▓▌
▓████▓▌ will sometimes be two and a minidisc player and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sometimes be three (when they can squeeze Brett's ▓▌
▓████▓▌ brother Darrell into the car with his drum set). ▓▌
▓████▓▌ But always their live performances will strive to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ be as beautiful and creepy as a thorny rose ▓▌
▓████▓▌ twisting around the bleached jawbone of a dead ▓▌
▓████▓▌ horse. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The Handsome Family is a small family consisting of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ husband and wife, Brett and Rennie Sparks who have ▓▌
▓████▓▌ been married for fifteen years. The first few years ▓▌
▓████▓▌ were a haze of drinking and mood swings much like ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" minus all the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ witty repartee. Brett, who writes the music, is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ proud of his ability to sing Schubert with Texas ▓▌
▓████▓▌ drawl intact. Rennie, who writes the lyrics, has ▓▌
▓████▓▌ been recognized internationally for her ability to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sob for hours on end. Live, on stage, the band ▓▌
▓████▓▌ usually consists of just the happy couple--Brett ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with guitar, washboard and Ibook (where their tiny ▓▌
▓████▓▌ drummer lives), and Rennie with Autoharp, bass, and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ melodica. On several occassions though, they've ▓▌
▓████▓▌ been able to drag other people on tour with them, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ most notably, Brett's brother Darrell Sparks who ▓▌
▓████▓▌ adds a lovely old-time brother harmonies to the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ songs and knows how to rattle the drum set. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The Handsome Family's fifth CD, Twilight was their ▓▌
▓████▓▌ biggest seller to date. They were invited to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ perform on "Later with Jools Holland" on TV in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ U.K. The record was a featured album of the month ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in "Uncut" magazine. The band toured almost ▓▌
▓████▓▌ continously for an entire year after its release in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ October, 2001. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Their fourth CD, "In the Air" was named #1 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Americana CD for the year 2000 by Mojo as well as ▓▌
▓████▓▌ being listed in Spin's annual "Best Ten RecordsYou ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Didn't Hear This Year." TV appearances included ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Ireland's "Late, Late Show." They were also ▓▌
▓████▓▌ featured on NPR's "All Things Considered." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The third Handsome Family CD, "Through the Trees" ▓▌
▓████▓▌ was the first CD to really bring the band worldwide ▓▌
▓████▓▌ attention (i.e. they quit their day jobs). Uncut ▓▌
▓████▓▌ magazine named "Through the Trees" the "Best New ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Country Album of the Year" and Chicago Sun-Times ▓▌
▓████▓▌ music writer Jim DeRogatis placed it as one of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ten most important albums to ever come out of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Chicago. ▓▌
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